Must... resist... urge... to... kill!

Ah, one of the Buggles...

Yes, back again from the World Superbikes at Phillip Island [Round One].

Over the years this makes the 6th race meeting I've been at which has had a fatality.

It's a dangerous game.

It was in Race one of the Aussie Superbike and Superstock race on the Saturday.

The rider ran wide rider's left at turn one....and crossed infield re-entering the track at about 2.6 - just after 'southern loop' which coincided with the arrival of the entire field at race speed.

He was hit and died instantly. The field had next to no chance to avoid.... only the last quarter of the field had a chance to back-off.

Realistically it was youth and inexperience....probably had no idea he'd encounter the field as he did..... a matter of timing.

5 seconds later they would have been well past.

I was on Turn 2 [right] so saw the incident [fortunately for me from a distance].

Sad to hear, Jafo.

Ive always thought that there needs to be some obstruction in that grass area. Build a dirt wall or something...

My mates were at turn 2 as well, they said it was sickening, and to them, they saw it coming, yet he did not. Like you said youth and inexperience, a shame those two things have cost a young bloke his life.

Puts a damper on the main race, which was great.

There's usually a barrier there....it was an FIM requirement that there wasn't.

Saturday night saw the reinstating of more barrier...but actually not long enough....had it been there he would have missed it anyway.

Re Race two of the Supers.... Mad Max came from stone mothering last to second.....

....He'd run wide at one likewise...but came on behind the field at 2.1

Kinda makes you wonder what all the other riders were doing....to get from last to second....

He got to 325kph .... the fastest for a Moto is 336....

I was sad to see Max leave MGP, i think he had a championship in him, if he had been able to get on a decent bike in the later years. '04 '05 was not a great time for him.

Not true.

Lindsay Fox/Fergus Cameron usually has a barrier there...the FORCE was on the part of FIM for it to be removed.

What you see at PI is purely the result of demands by FIM and Dorna as to how the track should be.

As for F1..... if a MotoGP bike can do 336 ....imagine what an F1 would do.  It's the fastest circuit on the MotoGP calendar....the fastest circuit in Australia....you will NEVER be able to run F1 on it....as it will be required just to be flattenned if nothing else....Lukey Heights would see an F1 launched....into Cowes.....  There's been several times 'mere' bikes have ended up 'in' with the spectators there...clearing the tyre barriers and fence....airborne...

When you stand on startline....with nothing between you and the track.... and Doohan passes on your side of the white line... less than 2 meters away.... and race control says "324" [that's 201.3mph] and you're almost sucked out of your shoes by the slipstream....you get to appreciate just how fast that track is....

...and how dangerous it can be.

3 of the 6 fatalities in my presence have been at PI,  one at Albert Park ...and 2 at Calder.

Believe me....this has nothing to do with LinFox.... nothing at all....

Biaggi took a while to 'mature'.

He was a wee bit hot-headed .... and inclined to 'throw it into the weeds'.  {i picked his bike up once...in the 250's] ...then there was the time he 'ignored' the black flag about 7  times...... the rule is 3...3 strikes and your arse is grass...

Ah....life is never simple....

OPSM can't even make my script.

I waited 2 weeks to learn it's actually beyond them.  Thanks for nothing.

I need to go through the whole thing again with a REAL Optometrist ...not these Franchise bullshit whatevers.

It's going to have to wait now till AFTER the GrandPrix.  I can't afford NOT to have something I can actually see through....

Just got my new glasses (and stardock account) today. Glasses are so expensive these days. $400 for Paul Smith Pirroni frames and $150 for the lenses. Free for me, thanks to good ol' parents' health insurance.

Also, I'm not fat...My birthday happens to be on 4/8

Biaggi is an arse...............

Bryan....did you see that second race?

I don't knwo about being an arse, but he gave all but one a good look at his as he blew by!